Freebies and free stuff

EDIT: Aww, they’re out of freebies now.

Here’s another free makeup sample! Walmart offered free Cover Girl Natureluxe makeup last month but then it died only to be reborn today. It doesn’t matter if you requested it last month either; they’ll let you sign up again now.

Companies could learn a thing or two from Cover Girl. Especially the ones that send me angry emails for posting their freebies “without authorization” or for making fun of them. Where does one even get authorization to post a freebie? Is there a governmental agency that oversees snarky bloggers?

[thanks Nikki!]

Denny’s birthday freebie is a free Grand Slam breakfast. The offer is only valid on the day of your birthday, as opposed to the entire week like some restaurants, so no dilly dallying! You have permission to dilly though. There’s always time to dilly.

Signup Freebie: 20% off entire guest check.
Birthday Freebie: Free Grand Slam breakfast.

Remember, we have a full list of free birthday food!

If you missed the free Maybelline New York FIT ME foundation from Target last month then here’s your chance to snag some from Walmart. Is it just me or have there been a lot of foundation freebies lately? Do women wear more makeup during the winter? I wouldn’t really know. Every time I talk to one I faint out of nervousness. To make matters worse they tend to view that as an unattractive quality in a guy. Stupid evolution!

A beef taco is a beef taco, no matter what the filling is “exactly” made of–or so says Taco Bell after their recent lawsuit. So it makes perfect sense that the first 10 million people to “like” them on Facebook get a free Taco Bell taco coupon so they can hammer in that point.

I guess I’d be more interested if it was a lion taco. I heard that those were going to be expensive…

Use code VDAYMP3S to get a free $2 Amazon music credit. There are millions of songs priced at $0.99 so that means you can get two of them for free.

[thanks to everyone who sent this in!]

EDIT: They’re down to $1 off coupons now.

Here’s a new link for an old free Carefree Liners and Stayfree Pads offer. That generally means the freebie is available, as does an old link for a new freebie. An old link for an old freebie means it’s expired but a new link for a new freebie is perfect! And if I ever explain something as simple as this again that means I didn’t have anything witty to say so I decided to ramble and hope nobody noticed!

[thanks Dollie!]

EDIT: The coupons are all gone.

What have I been doing for the past two hours? Constantly refreshing the page for this free Chef Boyardee coupon since it randomly goes live today for the first 50,000 people. And guess what … the Ngultrum is the currency of Bhutan! No, wait, I mean the coupon is live!

I’m not sure if it was in celebration of the Packers winning the Super Bowl (bring it, NFL lawyers!) or my birthday yesterday but somewhere along the way I started eating cake. Lots of cake. In fact, I was eating some while taking the photo above and it turned out pretty well. So the moral of the story is I need to eat cake while taking the Freebies Received photo every week from now until I die. It’s a tough job but I’m willing to step up and shoulder the responsibility.

Freebies Received

• Purina One Beneful dog food
• DenTek Comfort Clean Floss Picks
• Coupon for one free Yoplait Original Yogurt
• Nature Made Kids Vitamin D
• Lacoste Pink Perfume Samples
• March 2011 issue of Ladies’ Home Journal magazine
• Feb. 7, 2011 issue of Sports Illustrated magazine
• March 2011 issue of Teen Vogue magazine with a cover story on PROM MAGIC! OOOOOH!
• Feb. 7, 2011 issue of Newsweek magazine
• Feb. 7 – Feb. 13 2011 issue of Bloomberg Businessweek magazine
• Jan. 28, 2011 issue of Golf Week magazine
• Feb. 7, 2011 issue of Barron’s magazine
• One weeks worth of Wall Street Journal newspapers. I love the headline “Egypt Girds for Showdown.” Excellent usage of the word girds.

I dropped the ball on this one. I knew about the coupon above for three free Brueggers bagels a week ago and kept saying “I’ll write a postfor it tomorrow!” Oops.

The offer is for Tuesday, Feb. 8th from open until 2pm and it’s in celebration of their company birthday. Who can we blame for this mishap in notification other than myself? How about … your boss! Everyone hates your boss! Unless s/he’s cool, in which case I guess we’re back to blaming me. Crap!

EDIT: I believe they’re out of stock now.

If you like them on Facebook you’re supposed to get a free $110 P&G coupon book. However their site is overwhelmed right now and only returning an error message. It should be up soon, but I’ll be honest, there’s no way I’m refreshing every few minutes. After this weekends festivities and last night’s super awesome mega Packers win, I’m just thrilled to be conscious right now. There needs to be a paper in a medical journal explaining how my body is still functioning near full capacity.

It’s also worth the reminder that I wrote a how-to guide for removing unwanted Facebook apps and likes after getting freebies.